Tag: STRIKE

THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF POLYTECHNICS, ASUP HAS COMMENCED A ONE WEEK INDUSTRIAL WARNING STRIKE TO EXPRESS THEIR DISCONTENTMENT Nigerian polytechnics Lecturers , under the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), commenced a one-week industrial action today Monday, January 30th, to protest Federal Government’s failure to honour its agreement with the union and fund the polytechnic sector. In a statement released after an emergency National Executive Council meeting of the union in Abuja, the ASUP President, Usman Yusuf Dutse, said the union’s one month ultimatum to government expired in December 2016 without any…

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO PAY N284B ALLOWANCES The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that it could not afford to pay the N284 billion earned allowances being demanded by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Earned allowances are the compensation the lecturers are entitled to receive in other to enhance academic productivity and increase research output. The university lecturers, ASUU, embarked on a one week warning strike last Wednesday which was called off yesterday evening. The Federal Government has met seven of the eight demands of aggrieved university lecturers. One of…

ASUU STRIKE UPDATE It has been Reported that schools like Lagos State University (LASU), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, University of Uyo (UYO), University of Ibadan (UI) and some others have joined the ongoing warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU. Many schools has complied with the warning strike initiated by the ASUU .In line with the directive by the National Executive Committee of ASUU academic activities have been grounded in those schools. READ ALSO: ASUU Request For The Sack Of Education Minister Of Nigeria The…

ASUU Request For The Sack Of Education Minister Of Nigeria The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has requested for the sack of the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu over what it described as his “insensitivity and lack of commitment towards reversing the dwindling fortunes of the Nigerian education sector”. This request was made by Dr Ndamisa Mohammed Attaahiru the Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMINNA). According to him, the ongoing strike would have been averted if the Minster has been alive…

The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU Dissociates From ASUU One Week Warning Strike, following a meeting between the management staffs and the Vice chancellor on Monday. They made it known

ASUU Declares One Week Warning Strike This might just be Another prolonged strike looming in the nation’s universities as, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) according to a memo, will be embarking on a one week warning strike starting from Wed November 16. For the sake of our young undergraduates, i hope this strike doesn’t hold nor last. MORE DETAILS COMING SOON…